Excavation

Date 1977

Event ID 1046090

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NB 515650 150m NW telephone kiosk. Stone slabs and bones were uncovered during the preparation of house foundations. Excavation was limited. Finds included large quantities of animal bones (cow, sheep, deer, pig) and of pottery fragments, hammer stones, pot boilers, a bone pin. Some of the pottery has been provisonally dated to the early Iron Age. Structures found included dry-stone walls; a paved area; an under-floor 'drain' covered by lintel-like slabs, leading to a stone-lined pit; a rough mound of flattened stones. Stone structures at this depth have been found on other occassions in this vicinity.

Ponting, M and G 1977